Technical SEO
Resolve crawling, indexing, performance, and structural issues that limit search visibility.
Overview
Technical SEO gives search engines a reliable path to discover, render, understand, and index your content. A healthy technical foundation prevents strong pages from being weakened by avoidable access or performance problems.
Key areas to focus on
Crawl and index control
Manage status codes, robots directives, canonicals, and XML sitemaps.
Site architecture
Create logical navigation, internal links, and clean URL relationships.
Performance and rendering
Improve real-user speed, mobile behavior, and JavaScript accessibility.
Common questions
What should a technical audit check first?+
Start with crawlability, indexation, canonical signals, status codes, sitemap quality, and major internal-linking gaps.
Do Core Web Vitals affect SEO?+
They are part of page experience and can matter, but relevance and content quality remain essential.
How often should a site be crawled?+
Crawl after major releases and on a recurring schedule appropriate to the site’s size and rate of change.
Are all crawl errors urgent?+
No. Prioritize errors affecting important indexable pages, user journeys, and large groups of URLs.
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